In July 2016, my daughter, Sarah Graff, began her career with Ascension Seton as a new graduate nurse on the oncology floor at Seton Medical Center Austin. Eight short months later, in March 2017, Sarah was diagnosed with Acute Myeloid Leukemia. She started noticing...
This week The Seton Fund received a generous gift from donors Leigh and Clifford Chiu to support mental healthcare initiatives for college students in Central Texas. The donation established the Chiu Endowment for Excellence in Mental Health, and the investment will...
Two heart attacks, one heart transplant, and eleven heart surgeries later. On Christmas Eve, just days after delivering her fourth child, Kristen Patton felt a horrible pain in her jaw. Her husband, Steve, called 9-1-1 immediately. She crashed three times before...
Born too soon, but surrounded by love. Maggie Boyd’s pregnancy with her first child, Teddy, started out perfect, the kind most expectant mothers dream of. However, at 32 weeks it became apparent something was wrong with her unborn son. Her OBGYN noticed Teddy’s heart...
The phone call no one wants to get. It started with a lump. Then tests. Then a biopsy. Then the phone call—the phone call that changed everything. Pam was just 45 years old when she received her stage 3 breast cancer diagnosis—a diagnosis that came out of nowhere. She...
The Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) in any hospital is a very special place that runs on the passion and dedication of exceptional people. NICU nurses care for the tiniest, most vulnerable patients and their families at what, for many, is the most trying time of...
